Thomas Bender

Biographic Data

ID301420
NAMEThomas Bender
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMEBender
SIGNATUREBENDER T
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS75
TOTAL CITATIONS170
AUTHOR COUNT72
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX6

  • American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

    Stephen R Graubard, Thomas Bender et al.BOOKAmerican Academic Culture in…2021

  • The Cosmopolitan Experience and Its Uses

    Thomas BenderCHAPTERCosmopolitanisms2020

  • Selected Bibliography of Thomas Bender's Works

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2020References: 3

    Key publications by Bender

  • Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings; The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Skyscraper Gothic is a collection of excellent essays, each focused on a particular architect and one building. Its rich body of archival sources that derive from the architects and contemporary architectural critics allows for close analysis. The Black Skyscraper is less concerned with actual buildings; its focus is the perceptions of them by black writers (not exclusively, but black writers are clearly the core). Less attention is paid to forma…

  • Forty Years From Wingspread: The Transformation of American Intellectual History

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEModern Intellectual History2017References: 1

    If one Googles “Wingspread” a vast number of conference titles covering all manner of topics will fill the screen: from Fire-Rescue Service Stakeholders to Endocrine Disruptors, from Domestic Violence to Civic Responsibilities of Research. Of more interest to intellectual historians was the conference on the future of American intellectual history held at the Wingspread Conference Center in 1977. Over forty years the “Wingspread conference” and t…

  • Can National History Be De-Provincialized? U.S. History Textbook Controversies in the 1940s and 1990s

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2015

    Thomas Bender’s 2009 essay “Can National History Be De-Provincialized? U.S. History Textbook Controversies in the 1940s and 1990s,” originally published in Contexts: The Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, asks the important question of how a nation-specific curriculum in history—that is, how “American” history itself—can be taught with the least influence of political factions and the least interference of commercial factors, in l…

  • Nancy L. Green. The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880–1941

    Thomas BenderARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

  • The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s

    Thomas BenderARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 2

    Daniel Gorman titles his book The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s, eschewing the currently pervasive term global for good reason. Unlike Akira Iriye, whose focus in Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2002) is on nonstate global historical connections, Gorman mixes state, empire, and nongovernmental institutions and activities, beginning with the League of Nations. Gor…

  • The Historian as Public Moralist: The Case of Christopher Lasch

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEModern Intellectual History2012Cited by: 1References: 4

    When I entered graduate school in the fall of 1966, planning to study American intellectual history and perhaps intellectuals specifically, all the talk among the more advanced graduate students was a recently published book, The New Radicalism in America , 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type (1965), by Christopher Lasch. I read it eagerly, but I was not sure what to make of it. The author, Christopher Lasch, offered a very complex analy…

  • Forum: The Present and Future of American Intellectual History Introduction

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEModern Intellectual History2012Cited by: 1References: 3

    The following essays present six distinct but broadly compatible narratives of scholarship in United States intellectual history over the past half-century: postwar dominance, a season of despair, and then the field's rise, transformation, and expansion. The essays are a feast of erudition; any reader will come away from them with a list of “must-read” books. But there is much more here. These are rigorous and sophisticated explorations—at once h…

  • Neuroökonomie: Grundlagen - Methoden - Anwendungen

    Open AccessCorinna Bürger, Thomas Bender et al.BOOKNeuroökonomie2011

  • Entries

    Open AccessHarry Liebersohn, Martin Klimke et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Dictionary of…2009

  • Theory, experience, and the motion of history

    Thomas BenderARTICLERethinking History2007Cited by: 2References: 1

    Philip Ethington's ambitious paper rightly emphasizes the inextricable connection of time and space, making the point that without a sense of space, historians cannot understand their key concern of time. Yet he underplays the importance of experience and more importantly his framing of issues freezes time in space. He emphasizes time and being, but history's concern is being in time, doing in time. The challenge of what he offers is how to give …

  • Commentary: Widening the Lens and Rethinking Asian American History

    Thomas BenderARTICLEPacific Historical Review2007

    The new research here reported is extending Asian American and American history into the Pacific, complementing recent Atlantic world studies. Such extension fundamentally challenges the dominant east-west movement of American history. These essays offer (or reveal the need for) greater conceptual clarity in defining terms in the field and the scope of the field's international dimensions. This new work highlights the importance of including a co…

  • The American Way of Empire

    Thomas BenderARTICLEWorld Policy Journal2006Cited by: 2References: 4

    Research Article| March 01 2006 The American Way of Empire Thomas Bender Thomas Bender Thomas Bender is a professor of history and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University, and the author or editor of more than a dozen books on American culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 45–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2006-2007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitte…

  • City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity

    Audrey Sprenger, Michael Peter Smith et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003Cited by: 2

    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or place, and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, the cultural and the material, revealing the complex i…

  • Rethinking American History in a Global Age

    Thomas BenderBOOKRethinking American history in a…2002

  • Rethinking American history in a global age

    Thomas BenderBOOKRethinking American history in a…2002

  • We Are the World: Internationalizing the National, Nationalizing the International

    Louis A Pérez, Louis A Pérez Jr et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 5

    Rethinking American History in a Global Age Ed.by Thomas Bender.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. x, 427 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-520-23057-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-520-23058-2.) Estoy buscando a América y temo no encontrarla. Sus huellas se han perdido entre la oscuridad. Estoy llamando a América pero no me responde. La han desaparecido los que temen la verdad. (I'm searching for America and I fear I won't find it. Its traces hav…

  • Intellectuals, cities, and citizenship in the united states: The 1890s and 1990s

    Thomas BenderARTICLECitizenship Studies1999References: 4

  • Intellectuals, Cities, and Citizenship in the United States: The 1890s and 1990s

    Open AccessThomas BenderCHAPTERCities and citizenship1998

  • Scholarship, Local Life, and the Necessity of Worldliness

    Thomas BenderCHAPTERUrban University and Its Identity1998

  • Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the social history of academic intellectuals in the United States

    Thomas BenderBOOKIntellect and public life1997

    Periodic "crises" in our academic culture remind us that the organization of our intellectual life is a product of history - neither fixed by the logic of social development nor inherent in the nature of knowledge itself. At a time of much unease in academia and among the general public about the relation of intellect to public life, Thomas Bender explores both the nineteenth-century origins and the twentieth-century configurations of academic in…

  • New York and the Rise of Urban Conservatism

    Open AccessThomas BenderARTICLEJournal of Urban History1996

  • Clients or citizens

    Thomas BenderARTICLECritical Review1996References: 5

    John McKnight's The Careless Society tellingly exposes the ways the professionalized welfare state creates dependency. But McKnight is too quick to condemn this result as the product of professional self‐interest, and to posit as the alternative a selfless, republican model of community. He overlooks the more realistic possibility that the pursuit of their interests by social groups empowered to take care of themselves would better serve those in…